November 22, 2008

The first residents of the Villa Fontanas are just weeks away from being able to move in to this brand new condo community designed to compliment your active lifestyle. The Villa Fontanas will be San Jose’s best new condo community. The best in contemporary living with unsurpassed convenience, The Villa Fontanas offers luxury and privacy. The unique Mediterranean design includes wide corridors and breeze ways which separate many of the homes and create a sense of privacy, while flooding the walkways with natural light and fresh air.

Located in the prestigious Willow Glen area of San Jose, Villa Fontanas offers a short commute to most of the valleys major employers and is situated just a few minutes from world class shopping, dining and entertainment at Santana Row and Downtown San Jose. Situated across from the Fruitdale Station light rail stop, and just a block south of highway 280 Villa Fontanas provides easy access tothe Shark Tank, several art galleries, San Jose Museum of Art, Music in thePark, and San Joses finest cafes, pubs and night spots.

Here is an excerpt about Willow Glen from San Jose Magazine…

From the message “Smile … You’re in Willow Glen” painted on one of its buildings to the community’s annual street festival, Dancin’ on the Avenue, passing through Willow Glen feels like visiting a small town. Keeping foot traffic flowing, small, locally owned bookstores host authors, coffee shops feature live music, stores offer children’s and adult art classes, and a Saturday farmers’ market serves as a neighborhood meeting point.

Much as some small towns do, the Willow Glen community has a gym and pool that offer high school students free basketball, volleyball, table tennis, weight training, and recreational swimming during the summer. People can also bike, run, or walk along the Los Gatos Creek Trail, and find stuff to do at Willow Glen’s numerous parks, including
Lincoln Glen Park, which features San Jose’s first playground designed for both children with and without physical disabilities.

At Willow Glen’s schools—a half-dozen elementary schools, amiddle school, and a high school—academic performance and student attendance have risen dramatically in recent years, and a record number of students are taking college-entrance tests and going to college. Willow Glen High School offers more Advanced Placement classes than any other high school in the San Jose Unified School District and has met its improvement goals on the state Academic Performance Index for the last three years.